Jim Backus
Acting

Jim Backus

Born 25 February 1913 · Cleveland, Ohio, USA · Died 3 July 1989

Jim Backus (1913–1989) was a radio, television, film, and voice actor. Among his most famous credits are The Alan Young Radio Show, I Married Joan, Gilligan's Island, and Rebel Without a Cause. He also starred on his own show The Jim Backus Show.

Known for

Rebel Without a Cause
I Dream of Jeannie
Pete's Dragon
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Gilligan's Island
Charlie's Angels
The Love Boat
Angel Face
Don't Bother to Knock
The Brady Bunch
Good Guys Wear Black
Deadline - U.S.A.
Prince Jack
Slapstick of Another Kind
The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan's Island
There Goes The Bride
The Gossip Columnist
Angels' Brigade
C.H.O.M.P.S.
The Castaways on Gilligan's Island
Rescue from Gilligan's Island
Good Guys Wear Black
Pete's Dragon
Never Con a Killer
Have I Got a Christmas for You
Friday Foster
Crazy Mama
Cop on the Beat
Yes, Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus
The Girl Most Likely To...
Miracle on 34th Street
Now You See Him, Now You Don't
Getting Away from It All
Magic Carpet
Of Thee I Sing
Mooch Goes to Hollywood
Uncle Sam Magoo
The Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County
Myra Breckinridge
Hello Down There
Wake Me When the War Is Over
Where Were You When the Lights Went Out?
Hurry Sundown
Damn Yankees
Billie
John Goldfarb, Please Come Home!
Fluffy
Advance to the Rear
Mr. Magoo, Man of Mystery
Rendezvous in Space
Mr. Magoo in Sherwood Forest
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
The Wheeler Dealers
Johnny Cool
Critic's Choice
Operation Bikini
My Six Loves
Sunday in New York
Boys' Night Out
Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol
Zotz!
The Horizontal Lieutenant
The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm
Magoo Meets Frankenstein
Ice Palace
I Was a Teenage Magoo
Tom, Dick and Harriet
Magoo Meets Boing Boing (The Noise-Making Boy)
1001 Arabian Nights
The Wild and the Innocent
The Big Operator
A Private's Affair
Ask Any Girl
Terror Faces Magoo
Magoo's Lodge Brother
Bwana Magoo
Merry Minstrel Magoo
Magoo’s Homecoming
Macabre
The High Cost of Loving
Scoutmaster Magoo
Magoo's Young Manhood
The Explosive Mr. Magoo
Gumshoe Magoo
Magoo’s Three-Point Landing
Love Comes to Magoo
Man of a Thousand Faces
The Pied Piper of Hamelin
Top Secret Affair
Eighteen and Anxious
Rock Hound Magoo
Magoo Goes Overboard
Magoo's Masquerade
Magoo's Moose Hunt
Matador Magoo
Magoo's Private War
Magoo Breaks Par
Magoo Saves the Bank
You Can't Run Away from It
Magoo's Puddle Jumper
Meet Me in Las Vegas
The Naked Hills
The Girl He Left Behind
The Great Man
The Opposite Sex
Calling Doctor Magoo
Magoo Goes West
Magoo Beats the Heat
Magoo's Canine Mutiny
Meet Mother Magoo
Trailblazer Magoo
Magoo's Problem Child
Rebel Without a Cause
Francis in the Navy
The Square Jungle
Magoo Makes News
Magoo Express
Madcap Magoo
When Magoo Flew
Deep in My Heart
Destination Magoo
I Love Melvin
Angel Face
Above and Beyond
Geraldine
Don't Bother to Knock
Deadline - U.S.A.
Here Come the Nelsons
Hotsy Footsy
Androcles and the Lion
The Rose Bowl Story
Pat and Mike
Pink and Blue Blues
His Kind of Woman
I'll See You in My Dreams
Hollywood Story
Plutopia
Iron Man
The Man with a Cloak
Half Angel
I Want You
M
Bungled Bungalow
Barefaced Flatfoot
Bright Victory
Grizzly Golfer
Fuddy Duddy Buddy
Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town
Customs Agent
Spellbound Hound
Emergency Wedding
Trouble Indemnity
Edgar Bergen with Charlie McCarthy
The Popcorn Story
A Dangerous Profession
Ragtime Bear
Father Was a Fullback
One Last Fling
Easy Living
The Great Lover
Jim Backus · Midrow